Breaking Language Barriers: Introducing Document Translation for Global Teams
What do the best Shared Service teams have in common? They have an established process that they follow and great technology to support them. It’s not uncommon for Global Business Service teams to achieve 70% automation in processing invoices or sales orders.
While automation is great, it’s just half the story. The other half is about quality.
The multilingual challenge in global operations
However, most SSCs and GBS teams process documents in multiple languages, and language barriers create operational friction.
The challenges are multifaceted:
- Different document layouts across regions and languages
- Varying data formats that don’t follow standardized patterns
- Variable data availability with missing or differently positioned information
Until now, AP specialists in SSCs and GBS centers had to resort to uploading sensitive business documents to external translation services or LLMs—a practice that raises serious security concerns and disrupts workflow efficiency.
Rossum: Your partner for global document processing
At Rossum, we understand the complexities of global document processing. Our platform supports document processing in 276+ languages, helping enterprises worldwide extract accurate data from invoices, purchase orders, bills of lading, and other critical business documents.
See all the essential capabilities for global document processing.
Introducing document translation: check and verify documents in 75 languages
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Document Translation—a feature that eliminates language barriers while keeping your sensitive data secure and your workflow intact.
This powerful new capability allows annotators to instantly translate documents during the validation or annotation process, enabling a single team member to handle exceptions in any language or train our advanced AI to reach high automation levels faster.
What makes this feature essential
Maintain efficiency regardless of language
Keep your entire document processing operation in a single place and enable any team member to handle document exceptions, regardless of the source language. This flexibility dramatically improves processing speed and reduces bottlenecks.
Ensure processing accuracy
With instant access to both translated and original text, validators can make informed decisions while maintaining the integrity of extracted data.
Keep your data secure
Your confidential business documents never leave the Rossum platform. Process invoices, contracts, and financial documents with complete peace of mind.
What our customers are saying
We have made Document Translation available for numerous customers in testing and production environments to enthusiastic feedback.
Wolt processes 50,000 invoices a month from 10 countries with Rossum
“The live document translation feature is breaking language barriers for us. It is extremely beneficial for our daily operations. Since we have a centralized AP team, we don’t have native speakers for every operating country. Now, everyone can check any invoice.”
Bence Simon, Accounts Payable Team Lead, Wolt
Fugro processes 300,000 invoices a year in 4 shared service centers
“The translation feature works exceptionally well, achieving a 98% accuracy rate with Latin documents, around 85% with Arabic, and 70% with Chinese characters.
Praveen K., Automation Lead, Fugro
This upgrade has eliminated the dependency on language skills within the AP team, allowing us to translate any Latin language invoices with high accuracy directly within Rossum, thereby speeding up invoice validation.”
LAPP processes 350,000 sales orders in the EMEA region
“I think it’s very useful to have embedded translations in Rossum. Thanks to that documents are processed much faster without the need of copying the text from PDFs and pasting it to a translator.”
Jarostaw Wójtowicz, OTC Team Leader – Sales, LAPP
Ready to break down language barriers?
Document Translation is now available to all Rossum customers and is included in our free trial. Experience firsthand how this feature can transform your multilingual document processing workflow.
Start your free trial or schedule a demo to see Document Translation in action.